I live in a relatively small apartment, but it is not situated such that I can connect my computer directly to my amp.
Because I'm in NYC and I spend most of my listening time at work/on the subway, I use iTunes for pretty much everything. I also have iTunes playback through my home system via an AirPort Express.
... Yes, I am aware of the issues with lossy playback.
As I accumulate more and more FLAC files, I would like to be able to play those back directly through my home system without first converting them to MP3s. But another thing I would REALLY like to do is be able to play back through my home system while editing, rather than having to do it all on headphones.
I also don't want the files to necessarily have to "live" in multiple places. As in, I'd like the remote device to just play the songs off my current "live music" HDD, rather than physically copy the files there.
Am I correct that a Squeezebox can do almost-all of this, except for the playback while editing part... Is there any other system that will do that?